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To: Fightin Whitey
“Hannah Arendt”

Yes, in an effort to understand how the Jews got into the tragedy of the National Socialist Germany, I struggled through her ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism”. Hardest read I ever experienced. Still do not think I got the full meaning of the book. Came to the conclusion that the difficult sentence structure was a product of language barriers. Not sure, but suspect she was primary in something other than English.

45 posted on 02/09/2012 6:59:02 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil

>>>suspect she was primary in something other than English<<<

You are so right. Her family was Jewish and she was born in Germany...fled the Gestapo to Paris, then to the U.S. in her 30s.

It is a battle trying to read that stuff, isn’t it? Especially for a hard-head like me...lol...


52 posted on 02/09/2012 7:24:27 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Texas Fossil

Translations to English from German are often terribly awkward. The sentences go on and on and on...


80 posted on 02/09/2012 10:44:25 AM PST by jboot
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